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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Methane Dreams

“Earlier we found torch-like structures like this but they were only tens of metres in diameter. This is the first time that we’ve found continuous, powerful and impressive seeping structures more than 1,000 metres in diameter. It’s amazing… Over a relatively small area we found more than 100 but over a wider area there should be thousands… We carried out checks at about 115 stationary points and discovered methane fields of a fantastic scale – I think on a scale not seen before. Some of the plumes were a kilometer or more wide and the emissions went directly into the atmosphere – the concentration was a hundred times higher than normal,” --Igor Semiletov, International Arctic Research Centre, University of Alaska Fairbanksvast-methane-plumesis-the-greenhouse-gas-dragon-awakening?